Superfly, which helps travelers take advantage of frequent flier miles and airline rewards programs, is expanding its services to include a mobile app for finding and booking hotels. Superfly first launched at TechCrunch Disrupt SF in 2010 and uses big data to personalize flight results based on consumer travel records. In April, Superfly developed Superbox, which allows users to organize all…
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Flight Search Startup And Disrupt Contender Superfly Adds Personalized Hotel Booking Service 0
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Our Favorite iOS, Android and Windows Phone Apps of the Week 0
October 5th at 2:30am / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsWelcome to the new Apps of the Week, where we give you all the cool apps we came across in one place. Android folks, iOS folks, and Windows Phone folks, now you can all come together and live in peace, sharing in the joy that is a cool new app....
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ETA For iPhone Offers A Simpler Way To Get Driving Times & Directions To Your Favorite Places 0
February 26th at 8:03pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsLooking for a quicker way to find the drive time between two or more points, and optionally get directions? Google Maps may still be everyone’s go-to mapping application on mobile, but a new iPhone app called ETA is launching today to offer a simpler, faster and generally less cumbersome experience. However, the app isn’t really competing directly with the mapping giants themselves.
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Wunderwalk App Let’s You Quickly Map An Urban Outing 0
November 7th at 3:03pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsWunderwalk is an app that helps you find cool stuff to do in your city — or on your next city break — by combining Foursquare and Google Maps to let you search for a series of activities and have the app plot a route on the map, threading through the necessary stop offs and watering holes.
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Airbnb launches photo-centric app for iPads and Android tablets 0
April 29th at 9:45pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsAirbnb's app just got a little more travel-friendly.
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Airbnb + HotelTonight = new startup Overnight 0
May 26th at 9:23pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsNeed a place to crash last-minute but don’t want to pay for a pricey, cookie-cutter hotel? Overnight can hook you up with a local to stay with right away. Request a room and Overnight averages just 45 seconds until you get a response, and in LA, the startup says its spots are 23% cheaper than equivalent dwellings on HotelTonight.Overnight is Airbnb for people who don’t plan ahead.
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10 Free iPhone Apps You'll Use Every Day 0
February 10th at 8:59am / Mashable / 0 opinionsEveryone knows the iPhone isn't just for making and taking calls -- it's a slim supercomputer at your fingertips, with the potential to improve your daily efficiency. But...
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MapmyIndia ShowNearby Knows Your ’Hood 0
November 9th at 12:41pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsMapmyIndia has joined Singapore-based ShowNearby to bring you Android, BlackBerry and iOS apps that allow you to find points of interest in your neighbourhood. If you live in India or…
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Google Earth For iOS Goes Underwater 0
September 20th at 3:40pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsGoogle Earth for iOS just got an update that adds a host of underwater and ocean surface content, as well as spiffing things up for the Retina Display. I consider it the only safe way to explore the ocean.
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The New Essential Apps November 2011 0
November 30th at 11:00pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsiPhones. iPads. Android. Windows Phone 7. We've updated all of our essential apps lists to include a few forgotten favorites, some long awaited arrivals and, as always, even more amazing apps. Check them out! If you want to jump to see the best apps in a specific platform, click here: The end of the month is here, and that means it's time to do a little housekeeping on our list of the absolute best iPhone apps. Who will be inducted? Sprd the Note: Share song with your friends directly from your iPhone....
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Flying Home? Airport Chatter Brings Airport Info To iPhone, Socializes Travel 4
December 28th at 11:03pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsAirport Chatter, which debuted just in time to take advantage of the busy holiday travel season, is a new mobile application aiming to be the one-stop shop for everything related to air travel, from the time of departure to the time of arrival. The app includes venue profiles for the shops and services inside airports, allowing users to not only discover the hours of operations and other…
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Click A Taxi Launches Redesigned Apps to Cover 50 Countries 2
February 7th at 10:48pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsClick A Taxi has launched its redesigned mobile apps today and expanded its coverage to 50 countries in total – up from nine before – to clinch the record for the app with the largest global network of taxi drivers....
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Hipmunk Offers Offers Hotel Bookins Directly 0
May 9th at 6:48pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsWe’ve previously written about how Hipmunk has been setting out to hook the world’s savviest travelers ever since the San Francisco startup launched in the summer of 2010. Now, the travel search startup is going that extra step by enabling direct hotel bookings in its Web and mobile apps....
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Facebook Acquires “Mobile Technologies”, Developer Of Speech Translation App Jibbigo 2
August 13th at 1:43am / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsFacebook’s latest acquisition could help it connect users across language barriers. It has just announced that it’s acquired the team and technology of Pittsburgh’s Mobile Technologies, a speech recognition and machine translation startup that developed the app Jibbigo.
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Our Favorite Android, iOS and Windows Phone Apps of the Week 2
November 16th at 3:10am / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsS...
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5 Travel Apps to Help You Get the Most Out of Summer Vacation 3
June 4th at 8:05am / Mashable / 0 opinionsThese travel-recommendation apps will help you choose the best options on the road.
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HotelsByDay Lets Travelers Book Daytime Hotel Rooms For Less Than Overnight Stays 0
February 11th at 6:23pm / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsA new travel technology company called HotelsByDay wants to offer a new option for those looking for a place to work or unwind during their trips, when they don’t need to book a full overnight stay at a hotel. As you may have guessed by the name, the company is attempting to break open a new category in lodging: hotel rooms you can book by the day, for roughly 40% less than the…
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8 apps that will make it easier for you to work between countries and time zones 3
August 12th at 2:25pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsHere are 8 apps to help you maintain your sanity and use your time efficiently.
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10 apps you'll definitely want at the next protest 0
February 2nd at 9:05pm / Mashable / 0 opinionsThey'll help you with everything from finding the nearest restroom to understanding your rights.
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15 iPhone Apps for Your Summer Getaway 0
July 30th at 11:01am / Mashable / 0 opinionsWe all have our favorite apps that we use every day, but what about apps that sidestep our usual routine? If you're travelling out of town this summer, odds are you could...
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Google Ventures Takes A Sip Of Milk, Invests In Kevin Rose’s New Startup 1
November 7th at 11:55am / TechCrunch / 0 opinionsKevin Rose’s mobile lab, Milk, has a new investor: Google Ventures. The startup raised $1.5 million in a seed round last April from investors including Chris Sacca, Evan Williams, Dave Morin, Joshua Schachter, Ron Conway, Chamath Palihapitiya, TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, First Round Capital, and True Ventures. The total amount now raised in the seed is $1.7 million. “We started talking to Google after we closed our round,” says Rose, “but decided to open it up for them as they’ve been addin...
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TripAdvisor Expands its City Guides to 50 Destinations 0
May 24th at 6:31pm / The Next Web / 0 opinionsTravel review and booking site TripAdvisor has just announced that its City Guides mobile app has expanded into 50 total destinations — up by 30 more destinations from its original offering. Additionally, Android users can…
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The Week’s Best iPhone Apps 0
July 22nd at 10:00pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsSongify: It turns basic speech into awesome songs. You don't even have to try to sing! Made by the Gregory Brothers, the dudes behind Bedroom Intruder, Auto-Tune the News, Double Rainbow and more hilariously awesome songs, the app pretty much gives you their powers. For example, I recited Gizmodo article titles and the app imposed it on the Double Rainbow soundtrack to create something way more fun than it should be. Google+: Google+ Can it be good? The app is. The home page of Google+ acts as launcher...
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The New Essential Apps August 2012 0
August 31st at 10:00pm / Gizmodo / 0 opinionsiPhones. iPads. Android. Windows Phone. We've updated all of our essential apps lists to include a few forgotten favorites, some long awaited arrivals and, as always, even more amazing apps. Check them out! If you want to jump to see the best apps in a specific platform, click here: The end of the month is here, and that means it's time to do a little housekeeping on our list of the absolute best iPhone apps. Which ones were tops? NextDraft: From the mind of Dave Pell, NextDraft gives you the top 10...